Automobile-signal



N. M. DYER. AUTOMOBILE SIGNAL. APPucATloN man' mm1. 1921.

Pateted May 17. 1921.

3 m@ 1 WWW/A i ADH??? C@ p Units srarasj NELSON IVI.v DYER, orwA'rEItLooQIoWA, AssIeNoR or oNE-roURTIITO WILLIAM 1I.

d PYNE, or DES MOINES, Iowa, AND oNn-'roUIrrII'ToVLYcURGUs v. DARNALI.;or*y BURLINGTON, IOWA,

AUTOMOBILE-SIGNAL.

T all 'whom t may concer/lb.'

. citizen of the United States, vresiding at partsof my device, wherebythe objects .con`

Waterloo, in the county of Blackhawk and Y `State of Iowa, have mventedYa certain new and useful AutomobileSignal, of which the following is aspecification. A

The object of my invention is to provide an automobile signal adapted tobe fixed to the frame of a wind pensive construction. Y

. More particularly my'i'nvention relates to a devicev for indicatingthe direction'that the operator of an automobile is desirous of going,thepartsbeing so arranged that the operator may engage a he is about to.ftake Stillanother object is' to provide an arm,y capable4 of swingingmovement andhaving a counterweight on one end for normally.

tendingto hold position. -A Y A Still another object is to provide aresilient clip member for engaging the arm the device in inoperativewhen in inoperative position for ypositively.-k holding it against anyundesired movement. l y y 'like the human jhand- 'is provided withA aWith these andother objects in Vviewiny rangement andcombinationof thevarious templated are attained, as hereinaftermore fully set forth,pointed out in my claim, and*V illustrated inthe ,accompanying drawings,in which: I l f u' Figure 1 is a front elevation of my device as appliedto an automobile.

Fig. 2 is a central, sectional view taken through my devicel showing howit is applied to a wind shield frame; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing'the resilient clip for holding thesignal device.

In the accompanying drawings I have used theV reference numeral theframe of a wi'nd shield of an automobile. The frame 10 being permanentlyfixed relative to the automobile. Y

A movable frame 11 is provided in which is mounted the ordinary glass l2which completes the wind shield. The deviceis preferably designed to beused in connection shield of an automobile,` the parts being of simple,durable and in ex-v v Vis a short shaft or tube17 which isprovided knob,orthe like, for 70 swinging the indicator1 memberto a certain positionwhich indicates the direction that` 10 to indicate Application meaJanuary 31, .1921. `sei-iai No. fratello.V

EET GFF-11GB? lSmeeficaton of Letters Patent. Patntgd May Y with aclosed type ofautomobile; but Y beunderstoodthat it maybe used inconnection with the ordinary open type'auto-V mobi-le.

Fixedl to the frame extending fori-i1 i* wardly therefrom isabearing.memberfll which is provided withV an annular flange la.

screws 15.

An. opening 16V is provided .inthe frame l10i which reglsters with theopening in thebearopeningl and the; opening in the bearing 13v with thescrew threadedendslS and I9'.

ing .member Y13', .Extended through the;

A knob or hand engaging memberf20 is provided with a screw.

is receivedon thescrewthreadedfportion 18?? of the shaft,` 17 They knob'20 restsagainstm I Y d n Y ,A T fitting orjoint-.21 is fixed totheus'cr'ewV I is reccivedinthe fitting 21,

orjoint 2l. The screw threaded portion`23-Y .shaft 22 provided withscrew threaded por-' i An indicator member 25v vwhich' is socket 26..The socket 2 6 4is internallyscrew threaded and is received Vonthescrew thread- 1&5 *Y 1 i ed portion or end 24 yofthe shaft or arm'22. I.

- Ontheoppositeend ofY theqarm `22f'ispa i' hollow Vball memberv27pro`v`ided` with a" neck y28.` The nejclr28 is internallys'crewthreaded and is received Aon the screw threaded :end Qofihearma -Y Aplu'g29 is inthe armA V22,ifthe:i

fully set forth'. d n It will be understood that if thej arm `22necessary.

purposev of which willv be `hereafter, more 'V were a solid shaft theplugY 29 would 'not be I I The shot 30 in the ballmember27 serves as fla counter-weight for the indicator member 25. The plug 29 prevents anyofthe shot from going into the arm 22 to any .great 1 extent. y Y p Fromthe construction of thel parts `just described it will be seen that-Ihave provided a signal device which is capable of swinging movement onthe shaft 17.

The end of the arm 22 which is provided withthev indicator member 25 isa great deal longer than the end of the arm provided with the ballmember 27. In order.

to more equally balance the device, the shot 30 is used. n

The shot 30 tends to normally hold the signal device in the positionshown in solid lines in F ig. 1 of the drawings. When it is desiredV tomove 4the signal to voperative position, thenthe knob 20 is engaged andV l as toY provide a receiving portion or'receivrotated slightly whichcauses the indicator member 25 to be swung to the position shown indotted lines in Fig; 1, 'which is the A u operative position.

As-soon as the knob 20 is disengaged, or let goof, the weight 'caused-by the shot 30 will immediately cause" the arm Vand indi- V catormember to be swung back to normal position.

' In orderto prevent any undesired swinging movement of the arm I .haveprovided aV resilient clip device A which consistsot1 an arm 31 havingan extension 32 thereon.v The extension 32 is screwed to the frame 10 bymeans of screws33. VThe eXtreme for ward end of the arm 31 is bent asat34= s0 ing the .arm 22. 1 y y It willlbe seenthat when theV device isi i: moved to operative position and suddenly released, the weightwithin the :ball 27 will cause the arm 22 tobe swung to substantiallyvertical position. l p

The swinging movement will be limited Y' l'by the clip A and at the sametime the arm 22 will be engaged by the curved portion 34. Whenonce'engaged the arm 22 will not be released until some efl'ort isapplied to the i knob' 20 as will `be ythe-case when it def sired to usethe device.l

' The curved portion 34 may be enlarged or changed as desired `so thatthe amount of elort required tocause the clipto disengage l the' arm 22may be varied as is desired.

In my device Ihave not shown any means for lighting the indicatormember, however,

it will be understood that it would be an easy matter to place a lightbulb in the membei' 25.

It will be seen that I have provided a signal device oit' simpleconstruction, and one which can readily and easily be placed upon anautomobile preferably of the closed in type.

If my device were to be used with an open type automobile, then in placeof the bearing 13 a suitable bracket would be fixed to the wind shield.

struction andarrangement ofthe parts of' l my machine without departingfrom the real spirit and purpose'V of my invention, and it is myintention to cover by my claim,

any modified forms of structure or use ofmechanical equivalents, whichmaybe reasonably included within their scope.'` f I claim as myinvention: An' automobile signal adapted mobile 'or the like includinganarm having toi/be sei-'licured to the windshield frame of an'` autoitsends screw threaded, an indicator. secured to one of the screwV threadedends of said arm, a weight secured to the opposite screw threaded end'of said arm, a bearing member fixed to the windshield frame, a controlshaft extended through Vthe windshield frameand through said'bearing'member, the outen end of said control shaft being operatively connectedwith said arm Vnear said weight, a hand engaging member mounted on theinner end of said control shaft 'whereby it may be engaged for swing-ying said arm in a vertical plane from inoperative to operative position,the Aparts lbeing so arranged Vthat the weight normally holds the arm invertical position.

DesMoines, Iowa, January 17, 1921. NELSO'M. DYER.

